Father Quotes
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Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
Patti Smith
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Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
George M. Cohan
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Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
Nolan Bushnell
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Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.
James E. Faust
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My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.
Emir Kusturica
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He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.
Patrick Henry
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We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.
Chung Mong-joon
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My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
Ciaran Hinds
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Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
Christian Slater
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I have not seen a man over there, and so I wonder whether my neighbor has a husband or her boy has a father. I would be sad to think that he doesn’t, but having a father isn’t necessarily a good thing. I have one, and while he did buy this house for me to live in, he also has his lawyer send me a lot of letters and may not have given any thought to radiant floor heating.
Craig Lancaster
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My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.
Frank McCourt
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Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have pass'd.
William Shakespeare
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Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this, at a time when we need all the heroes we can get. I knew him to be a good person, regardless of all the hype floating around in the media.
Brandon Webb
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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
Rene Girard
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I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.
Jane Austen
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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
John Lithgow
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Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.
Adam Sandler
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My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and white. There's an in-between in everything. So look at that side, don't take one point, because then you are negating half of the other people. Try to find the logic on a problem, something that you believe, and take the position that you believe, but be very careful about it." So I was very well trained in that aspect.
Sergio Aragones
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Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'
Atticus Shaffer
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If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Louise L. Hay
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Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
Claire Tomalin
